Shulchan Aruch

The “Set Table,” a repository of Jewish Law, written originally by Rabbi Yosef Karo, and containing the opinions only of the great Sephardic “Rishonim;” later supplemented by the “Mapah,” the “Table-Cover” by Rabbi Moses Isserles, [the “RAMA”], and including as well the opinions of the great Ashkenazic “Rishonim.” The work then truly became a work for all of Israel.

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